Open to filmmakers that reside in the United States, Latin America, The Caribbean, or Spain who are at least 18 years of age and have produced, written, or directed a film that includes Latino actors or reflects on the Latino community and culture.

• Films must have been completed after January 1, 2022.
• Films must be entirely filmed within the United States, Latin America, The Caribbean, and/or Spain.
• Films must not have had any previous exhibition on broadcast, television, cable, or online.
• Films must not be publicly available online through October 10, 2024.
• All Spanish and Portuguese language films must include subtitles in English.
• Filmmakers must provide a DCP’s format, unless informed otherwise.
• Short Films must be a minimum of 3 minutes in length and a maximum of 45 minutes in length (inclusive of the title sequence and closing credits).
• Feature films must be longer than 45 minutes in length (inclusive of the title sequence and closing credits).
• We are not accepting episodic productions this year.

All Entries will be judged based on the following judging criteria (“Judging Criteria”) on an ongoing basis and through 10/10/24:

• Story and Plot (20%)
• Technical Merit and Production Value (20%)
• Acting Performances (20%)
• Creativity and Originality (20%)
• Appropriateness to Contest Theme (20%)

Once a film has received an official invitation from the Festival, and prior to the event, the producers or representatives of the selected films must confirm their attendance by duly completing and returning the online submission form to the Festival. The Festival will recognize the person who signs this confirmation as the sole representative in negotiating all aspects related to participation of the film in the event and as the sole responsible as opposed to other companies or individuals to have participated in producing the film.

Confirmation by the producers or representatives of the selected film means that they cannot withdraw their film from the program and that they irrevocably accept all regulations established by the Festival Management.

The invitation made to each film selected by the NVISION Film and Music Festival will remain strictly confidential between the Festival Management and the producers or representatives of the invited film until such time as the Festival decides to make an official announcement in this regard.

The complete Festival program and all screening times are exclusively decided by the Festival Management Committee.

Films accepted under any feature category are eligible to compete for the FEATURE FILM GRAND PRIZES.
Films accepted under any short category are eligible to compete for the SHORT FILM GRAND PRIZES.

All federal, state, and local taxes are the sole responsibility of each prize winner.

International recipients of a cash award need to fill out an International Tax Exempt form provided by the festival in order to accept a cash award.

No substitution or transfer of prize by winners permitted. By entering, the entrant grants to Sponsor and its licensees the right to use the entrant’s name, likeness, and all information submitted or otherwise provided for purposes of advertising, publicity, marketing, and other communications, worldwide, in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification, or permission, unless prohibited by law.

Employees, Contractors and Freelancers of the festival, Neon 16, NTERTAIN, ATOMICUS CREATIVE GROUP LLC and Palm Springs Art Museum are prohibited from entering the competition.

The documentation required by the Festival for its press releases, official catalog and website (synopsis, technical and artistic credits, bio-filmographies, pictures of the director/s and film stills) will be extracted from the online FilmFreeway Submission form, which must be duly updated upon receiving acceptance to the festival.

Any additional promotional material for the selected films requested by the different Festival departments must be sent promptly by their producers or representatives.
The producers of films winning an award undertake to mention the award in question on all press material and advertising. They will respect the exact wording of the Jury decision and will use the Festival logo to be made available in several languages on the official Festival website.